Oceanaleen Bordiva Boats                                

Bordiva is a design based upon the earlier concept for the Cordava designed to quickly remove litter from coastal and waterways environments. These boats will be operate patrolling coastlines worldwide with fully funded crews and support facilities. Capital is provided by the "Double your money" program for 6-10 years, after which Shaeneen4 and Shaeneen5 production profits will provide funding. 

The bulk of these crews will be retrained Oceanaleen Ground Team members who wish to increase their skills for the greater marine role.Crews will be delegated into precincts giving an area of operation to each team. These people will be fully trained in all aspects of the mission and other duties. Most Bordiva crews will visit schools and other facilities giving educational talks as part of the Saharro program.

Teams will be trained in rescue operations, body recovery, crisis management, maintenance, wildlife rescue, survival and other unusual criteria along with the basic mission of picking up rubbish. There will be swimming training each week monitored online to ensure each employee is able to be at peak condition.

The crews can generate their own strategies and provide feedback to improve other Bordiva efforts. Initial training will provide guidelines and recommendations. The crews will not operate in harsh weather. Teams will cover a precinct over a 5 day week, sharing driving and collection duties. The same applies to larger islands assigned with Bordiva’s, except crews will circle the island, or islands, as well as look in hot spots -where rubbish accrues in currents produced by the Oceans flow, quite common in the Ocean. Where possible locals will be employed, saving money from imported crews.

Bordiva crews will be much more than just rubbish collectors, the education requirements will be necessary to perform well under all sorts of conditions. They will be a very important part of the community. The teams will be supplied and deployed with support equipment such as a vehicle and trailer. More boats will be supplied to the nations with higher levels of uncontrolled rubbish flow, and locations found to have the most rubbish will be supplied with boats and crews first. Crews in cold climates will be outfitted with survival suits.

Within many countries a centralised depot or base will be set up with low cost warehouse staffed with one or two people monitoring and supervising twenty or more precincts with safety, meteorological and other functions. The local Oceanaleen bases will consist of a warehouse, and 120 of these depots will be located around the world to assist in all aspects of operations. The bases will be where the boats are flown to and recruitment and training takes place.

Maintenance will be undertaken by local businesses where available depending upon quality; in some locations mechanics may be flown in. The boats will be inspected every quarter to ensure workers are looking after the boats, which are responsible for looking after their Bordiva on a day to day basis.

Boats would be supplied to locations all around the world. Most Bordiva’s will operate with a 100 mile stretch of coastline. For areas of high concentration such as city harbours, this will be reduced to the actual harbour, and work in conjunction with the local maritime authority. There may be more than one boat in a harbour in certain hotspots.

Bordiva crews will be trained in meteorology, and with conditions such as swells over 2 metres or heavy rain; the final call will be the operators and supervised by the Oceanaleen local base. Boats are supplied with trailers and will be driven to boat ramps closer to the day’s area of operation, being cheaper and faster than using one point of water entry for the boat.

For remote areas such as the Alaskan and South American coastlines, this will be assessed by survey teams during the manufacture of the boats. Some precincts are likely to be over 200 miles with mostly shore-based recovery operations. This is where crews disembark to collect litter from beaches. They bag it, load it aboard and then moves on from beach to beach.

The budget sets aside $100,000 per Bordiva system, this pays for the boat, a barge for additional rubbish, a boat trailer (the barge fits on top of the boat) and a vehicle to tow it. The budget also allows for the cost of shipping overseas to various localities around the world. This means 1000 boats and barges can be provided free of charge to all the nations in the world for only $100 million. This translates to a large amount of rubbish removed for a comparatively small price when compared to the Ocean cleaning operations.

Bordiva barges

Most Bordiva precincts will be augmented by barges, which are also included in the Oceanaleen - Bordiva budget. Harbours and river systems accrue an enormous amount of rubbish and equipping the workforce with a barge means the boat can cover a greater area before having to return to shore. This means more rubbish can be picked up because the workers will have more time on station.

Bordiva barges use commercially available hulls for river operations which are available for under $10,000. The barges will be adapted to have rigged netting allowing more load to be carried prior to return. Coastal operations will be supplied with wedge shaped hulls to better cope with swells and wakes. Shallow and river-mouth operators will be given a flat bottom hull which has a smaller draught. These hulls are very light and can be stowed inverted above the boats for transport protecting Bordiva’s from the weather when not in use.